If you are fed up with constantly jumping back and forth between your glossary and speech manuscripts or Powerpoint presentations, here’s a tool that will make your day: Intragloss, developed by Dan Kenig and Daniel Pohoryles from Paris, allows you to transfer terms from your text directly into your glossary, checks new texts against existing glossaries and highlights glossary terms that have been found in the text, adding its translation in a small comment between lines. Furthermore, Intragloss includes a parallel display function of original text and translation and lets you search for terms in internet resources like linguee, IATE, Wikipedia and the like. In short: Intragloss offers three killer functions, which each of them make this program worth trying.

– Mac-only; a Windows version is currently being developped (you can register as a beta tester!).

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About the author:
Anja Rütten is a freelance conference interpreter for German (A), Spanish (B), English (C) and French (C) based in Düsseldorf, Germany. She has specialised in knowledge management since the mid-1990s.

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Interestingly, the programs presented in my last article are obviously the „veterans“ of terminology management for conference interpreters (most of them have been around for years, since long before tablets and smartphones appeared). Two brand new booth-friendly terminology management programs have been brought to my attention (both still in beta version), and I am delighted to share this with you:

A browser-based web application, i.e. it works on any device (for Mac OS users, there is an additional program called Boothmate, which works offline as well). It is organised in glossaries, with straightforward editing functions, unlimited (I take it) number of language colums and a limited number of additional columns (comment, category, definition, acronym, other). It is great for keeping your terminology up to date at all ends (cloud, PC, tablet, smartphone) and sharing it with colleagues. The search function is very swift with the hit list being narrowed down with every additional character you type. Does not ignore accents or umlauts (what’s the English plural of umlaut, btw?).

Glossary Assistant is Android-only. It is still in its initial phase, so it is only available via shared link from the regmartin96@gmail.com.
It concentrates on comfortable viewing of glossaries on android-tablets (not so much on phones), editing the glossaries is also possible. Once converted into txt, glossaries can be copied to your tablet then added to Glossary Assistant. It relies very much on short-touch, long-touch and swiping, and once you get the hang of it, viewing and sorting it is really intuitive. The app offers „clean“ and „dirty“ searching, the latter meaning that it ignores accents and umlauts. This app is still being worked on, so don’t be shy and test it in order to help Reg meet our requirements!

Available for Android tablets.
Cost: Currently available free of charge.

Now it’s your turn! I am looking forward to reading your comments, feel free to share your experience, questions or any other booth-friendly terminology management programs I have missed out.